Example sentences of "has [vb pp] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received over the level of the retirement pension . |
| 2 | From 1066 and Battle of Hastings , you pass through the Abbey Gatehouse and see how the town has developed over the years . |
| 3 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 4 | Dealing with drivers at this tender age obviously sparked an interest in transport which has developed over the years . |
| 5 | Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance . |
| 6 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |
| 7 | In Thailand , for example , there is practised an ancient art of war which has developed over the centuries into a highly exciting spectator sport . |
| 8 | A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies . |
| 9 | It has been greatly influenced by the tangled confusion into which the Anglican Communion has stumbled over the ordination of women . |
| 10 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 11 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |
| 12 | COSE has given over the organisation and running of the COSE Developers Conference , supposed to be in October , to Uniforum , leaving it to decide when and where to have it . |
| 13 | He has given over the training to Druim and Unish . |
| 14 | Practice has differed over the years . |
| 15 | The choice between lignocaine and bretylium has varied over the years , with comparative trials showing no difference in outcome between the two agents . |
| 16 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 17 | Nurse Catherine Cockborn said : ‘ The change that has come over the pair of them is absolutely amazing . |
| 18 | Fresh food is the most extreme example of the change that has come over the shops . |
| 19 | It indicates the change that has come over the world . |
| 20 | His preoccupation with conservation has grown over the years , but even then it was nothing new . |
| 21 | This list has grown over the years . |
| 22 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 23 | How now to understand my passion for Glasgow that has grown over the years of absence from Scotland ? |
| 24 | Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries . |
| 25 | Ivars has built over the years a series of light aircraft , most employing a faithful Cirrus Minor I engine . |
| 26 | Our order book in the Middle East reflects the first-class reputation Wimpey has built over the years for the scope of its expertise and excellence of its workforce . |
| 27 | It is early morning and dawn has crept over the land with the suddenness characteristic of summer . |
| 28 | It is five o'clock in the morning , but already the sun has crept over the horizon and the temperature is rising . |
| 29 | The paralysis that has crept over the planet . |
| 30 | A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre . |